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Whilst mooching around the Cleveland Ironstone area I spotted a spoil heap and decided to have a look at the view from the top. On arrival it became apparent that a few buildings survived from the mine which operated from 1870 to 1963. I suspect that the engine house has been used for paintball activities.

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See a spoil heap and must climb it,

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Mine site ahoy.

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694ft deep capped shaft just visible at the far left.

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The engine house for an electric winder dates from c1916 although some sources suggest 1930s.

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Tracks in the floor of the 1951 workshop for maintaining the underground electric locomotives.

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Brick structure on the left is over the site of the upcast shaft and that on the right was associated with an electricity sub-station.
 
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That looks like a cracking site mate...cheers ....wouldn't mind taking my motocrosser around that tump too !! (around / over /up /down etc etc !):)
 
Just a bit of lateral thinking seeing as Iron mines are a lot safer to mooch into than old coal workings....
That pit was open for over 90 years...there must be some substantial tunnels / caverns etc under that area?????????
Any other ways in ???
Vent shafts ????
Iron mines usually carried on from where ancient Britons and Romans and other folk etc had been scratching for years...extending natural caves to get at the ores etc .............So .......
Are there any 'natural;' caves in that area ??
Do they quite possibly link up with the 'later' underground workings of this mine ???
Summat to have a think about and research on I guess..................:)
 
Just a bit of lateral thinking seeing as Iron mines are a lot safer to mooch into than old coal workings....
That pit was open for over 90 years...there must be some substantial tunnels / caverns etc under that area?????????
Any other ways in ???
Vent shafts ????
Iron mines usually carried on from where ancient Britons and Romans and other folk etc had been scratching for years...extending natural caves to get at the ores etc .............So .......
Are there any 'natural;' caves in that area ??
Do they quite possibly link up with the 'later' underground workings of this mine ???
Summat to have a think about and research on I guess..................:)

You got it in the last line! :)

Cracking location this. It's a completely different spoil heap to what I'm used to - you can actually see the iron content in it. It also looks like someone has been taking some of the spoil heap - possibly for farm tracks?? The huge concrete shed looks mad! Are there any signs of machinery left at this site?
I'm a stranger to the iron mines of Cleveland - do you have a flash link for this site?
 
I love that engine house, those little things like that make countryside walks all the more fun in my opinion :)
 
You got it in the last line! :)

Cracking location this. It's a completely different spoil heap to what I'm used to - you can actually see the iron content in it. It also looks like someone has been taking some of the spoil heap - possibly for farm tracks?? The huge concrete shed looks mad! Are there any signs of machinery left at this site?
I'm a stranger to the iron mines of Cleveland - do you have a flash link for this site?

No machinery I'm afraid. Having read a little more about the site, it seems that there was a local campaign in 1991 to retain the spoil heap as a memorial to the Cleveland Ironstone Mining industry.

Here's the Flash link
 
The Eston Mines:

http://www.pancrack.tv/acis.html

This is a brilliant film,all the miners in it have sadly died now,thank eff this film was made when it was and how it was,Teesides iron history has been greatly preserved and recorded here - thank eff!

The bloke who made it did walks on the Hills to show the places in the film etc a year ago, not sure if he did anymore this year,if he's still doing them in the summer they are well worth it!Not much left now,a few bits on the surface,only 1 bit underground you can get into (altho if theres more I intend to find out!)here are some pics from the walks:

http://www.pancrack.tv/hikes.htm
 

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